liard
\ljaʁ\
The verdict
“liard” is uncommon French (frequency #72,492 among 2,567 “L” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,492
- frequency rank, French
- 2,567
- “L” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancienne monnaie française et belge en cuivre qui valait un quart de sou.
Corpus desk
Index FR-liard · liard · French
liard · rank #72,492 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,492
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 2,567
- PHOTO-FINISH libelle
Nearest frequency peer: libelle (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « liard »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- lessivage
lessivage
27,512 corpus weight
- lessons
lessons
27,511 corpus weight
- liard
liard
27,509 corpus weight
- libelle
libelle
27,508 corpus weight
- libidineux
libidineux
27,507 corpus weight
- libra
libra
27,506 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « liard » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | liard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ljaʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #72,492 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « liard » en français
Rare enough to double-check
liard is uncommon French at frequency #72,492 among 2,567 “L” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ljaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for liard in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is liard, spelled L-I-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Ancienne monnaie française et belge en cuivre qui valait un quart de sou.
- 2Monnaie quelconque, de faible valeur.
- 3Rondelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how liard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De fait, nous n’avions pas le sou ; nos poches et nos tiroirs fouillés et renversés sur la table, tout compté et recompté, liards, centimes, monnaie de billon et pièces d'argent, – sur dix que nous étions, – nous nous trouvâmes riches d'à peu près quarante francs... Bon Dieu ! quarante francs, pour dix !
Vous êtes un homme dangereux, seigneur Grand-Eunuque. Utile mais dangereux. Si les destinées vous avaient mis à ma place, je ne donnerais pas un rouge liard du bonheur de mon propre peuple.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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